Word Meanings - MASTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house , a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging
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The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house , a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging the water, used for stepping and unstepping the masts of vessels.
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- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - MASTHOUSE
A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc. - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - MASTICABLE
Capable of being masticated. - MECHANISM
An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the - MASTICATION
The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - POLYMASTISM
The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - HEMASTATICS
Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - STYLOMASTOID
Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - REMASTICATION
The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly. - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic